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Mike,
Many thanks for the T- Shirt, its a very kind gesture & I'll wear
it with pride! I'm a huge fan of you and Bill. I have only just recently
started to rebuild my music collection after loosing my extensive
vinyl collection in the 1997 floods in Katherine (NT) ....I think
I was suffering a form of music depression to take so long?, I had
all the Spectrum and Ariel LP's together with Carson, Chain, Country
Radio, etc, etc
I have found with utter amazement that their is very little of that
magnificent era of Australian music available on CD re-release! this
is a disgrace and the nob heads that run EMI and other big record
labels should be 'slung by the pile's' for not re-issuing this fantastic
material! I was however rapt to find that you and Bill have taken
matters into your own hands and have Ariel Re-issues available I am
also waiting with great anticipation for Aztec Music to release Spectrum,
Part One and Milesago!
I would be extremely happy to be on your mailing list, and the PayPal
service is great.......very user friendly! and my T-Shirt is XXL.
Many thanks again.....keep on rockin'
Kind regards,
john
John Lakey
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Hi Mike,
Many thanks for the great CD's which arrived today (Mon).
Like many of our age I enjoyed your music in, for us, the formative
years of Australian pop/rock. It was a copy (not mine - sorry) of
what were best, first impressions from Strange Fantastic Dream which
first entertained when I worked in Carnarvon (not far south of Whim
Creek..) in 1975. A recent cassette cleanup revealed a still good
copy of the music which had aged gracefully in various cassette carriers
and car gloveboxes for all those years.
But what did I know about this band? Couldn't even spell the name
correctly since the pencilled cassette cover had faded (where the
hell are those glasses!) Thanks to the www & Google your history
and present was much closer than I imagined and what a buzz to read
the key members of this band were still making music.
Really glad to be paying the original artists for what I enjoyed all
those years ago.
If you ever make it back to Perth or south-west WA I'll do my best
to see whichever act you're playing in... might even be able to drag
the misses along!
Thanks for making the music.. then and now.
All the best.
Steve
Napier - WA 21.6.06
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| Mike,
Received the CD today and it is fantastic. I've been trying to get
this in Second hand stores for about 15 years.
Thanks very much. I'll have to make some more orders in the near
future.
Regards
Stewart
Stewart
Beveridge 17.1.06
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Hi Mike, Bill
and everyone else
CD's and t-shirt arrived in great condition.
After hearing that the Jellabad Mutant had finally been released I
had to get it. I hunted about for the band website as I prefer to
deal directly with the band if I can to give them the $$.I ended up
ordering 4 CD's and paid right away with PayPal (gotta love PayPal).
Next day I received an email. I thought that it would just be an order
confirmation type email. It was from Mike, making the offer of a free
t-shirt.
Well what could I say? Yesssssssssssss. I gave him My size as a cute
XL and sat there thinking that this is great service. Cheap postage
and now a free t-shirt!! But most of all Mike sounded like a real
down to earth nice guy. Not many of us left these days.
This 54 year old body still gets out the old Spectrum vinyl and plays
it. They were a real ground breaking Aussie band and it is good to
see that they are still playing in one form or another.
Progressive Rock (evil words in some areas) and blues have been a
love of mine for years from The Bay City Union and Chain (the first
REAL blues bands I heard live) to Spectrum. Unfortunately the 60's
ended about 1975 and the music changed. But the memories remain.
A few years back thanks to the wonders of the Internet I found a site
www.progressiveears.com with lovers of progressive music discussing
their passion. I have been a member for about 5 years now and entered
Spectrum and Ariel in the Artists Directory section a while back.
Not many Aussies were members then. Have a look if you get a chance.
I use the name Chain there.
Once again, thanks for the CD's, the t-shirt, the music and the memories.
take care
George
P.S. I took a pic of Me wearing the t-shirt. I didn't want anything
to distract
George Lummis - Qld 13.1.06
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Dear
Mike,
I was totally amazed when "Spill" arrived at my house in
the heart of the Kent countryside here in the UK only 4 days after
ordering it from you guys via "PayPal" in Melbourne. If
only everything in life happened that smoothly, what a joy it would
be!! I was so happy to receive a CD from Spectrum that I never knew
existed until 10 days ago.I left Melbourne in'76, a huge fan of the
great days Aus Rock- particularly Chain, Country Radio, Carson, Daddy
Cool, Thorpie to namebut a few - and of course, Spectrum.. "Superbody"
still sounds as though it could have been recorded yesterday. The
TF Much Ballroom and all those Saturday arvo gigs in various pubs
around the suburbs!! How the hell did we survive!!
Thanks guys, - amazing memories, and thanks PayPal for getting those
CD's all the way across the globe "in a flash".
Mark Hickmott
- Kent, UK 13.6.05
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